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This list also includes ships before the official founding of the Navy and some auxiliary ships used by the Army. For a list of ships of its successor, the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, see List of active Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force ships and List of combatant ship classes of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force.
Pages in category "World War I naval ships of Japan" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. ... 0–9. 1st Special Squadron (Japanese Navy) K ...
Between the 1890s and 1940s, the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) built a series of battleships as it expanded its fleet. Previously, the Empire of Japan had acquired a few ironclad warships from foreign builders, although it had adopted the Jeune École naval doctrine which emphasized cheap torpedo boats and commerce raiding to offset expensive, heavily armored ships.
Imperial Japanese Navy: Kawachi: dreadnought: 22,183 1 July 1912 20 November 1945 Converted into target ship 1923, scrapped 1946–1947 Sevastopol Imperial Russian Navy: Gangut: dreadnought: 24,800 30 November 1914 17 February 1956 Renamed as Parizhskaya Kommuna 31 March 1921, scrapped 1956–1957 Shikishima Imperial Japanese Navy: Shikishima ...
This is a list of cruisers of the Imperial Japanese Navy built between 1885 and 1945. Armoured cruisers (Sōkō ... Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921.
The Maru Special series each volume, "Ushio Shobō"., Tōkyō, Japan. Ships of the World series each volume, "Kaijinsha"., Tōkyō, Japan. Seiki Sakamoto and Hideki Fukukawa (joint authorship), Encyclopedia of organizations of the Imperial Japanese Navy, Fuyōs Sobō Shuppan, Tōkyō, Japan, 2003, ISBN 4-8295-0330-0
Later on October 31, the Japanese together with a token British force then laid siege to the German colony. With the East Asia Squadron absent, the Imperial Japanese Navy mainly played a supporting role primarily by bombarding German and Austrian positions. However, the campaign was notable for the use of Japanese seaplanes from the Wakamiya. [2]
Pages in category "World War I naval ships" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. D.